Andrea Dovizioso admits his current MotoGP championship situation would not be different had he not crashed at Silverstone and Catalunya, as Ducati hasn’t been “close” to Marc Marquez this year. Despite a strong recovery ride to second, Dovizioso could offer no challenge to a dominant Marquez in last weekend’s Aragon Grand Prix, as the Spaniard
Month: September 2019
Craig Breen’s chances of driving a Hyundai World Rally Championship car on the season-closing Rally Australia rest on a good performance from his rival team-mate Dani Sordo on Rally Spain. Sordo, who misses this week’s Wales Rally GB, sits 10th in the driver’s standings – but he is only 22 points off fourth place. A
Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr has hit out at NASCAR Cup Series rival Alex Bowman after throwing water over the Hendrick Motorsports driver following clashes in the Charlotte Roval race. The pair clashed twice in the race that set the Round of 12, including a first-lap coming together in which Bowman braked too late and hit
Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr has hit out at NASCAR Cup Series rival Alex Bowman after throwing water over the Hendrick Motorsports driver following clashes in the Charlotte Roval race. The pair clashed twice in the race that set the Round of 12, including a first-lap coming together in which Bowman braked too late and hit
Controversial rider Romano Fenati will join Max Biaggi’s squad for his eighth season in Moto3 and his second since his ban from competing was lifted at the end of 2018. Fenati was ousted from the world championship last year when he grabbed the brake lever of Forward Racing’s Stefano Manzi in a controversial incident during
Chase Elliott crashed and then won an action-packed NASCAR Cup race at the Charlotte Roval as playoff positions for the round of 12 were decided. The Hendrick Motorsports driver led home team-mate Alex Bowman, who secured his place in the next round of the post-season with the result. It was very nearly a different story
FFF Racing Lamborghini’s Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli took an unlikely sweep of Blancpain GT Series titles by winning a tense Barcelona season finale, pipping SMP Racing by one point. Caldarelli and Mapelli – joined in the #563 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 by Albert Costa, with regular co-driver Dennis Lind out with illness – took their
Double champion Josef Newgarden will demo his Penske IndyCar at Charlotte this weekend, and the track and championship have held “high-level” talks about an IndyCar Roval round in the future. This weekend NASCAR will hold its second successive event at the Roval after the road-course style lay-out was used for the first time in 2018.
Japan, Kenya and New Zealand all return to the World Rally Championship calendar in 2020, with Australia, Corsica and Spain all dropped from the schedule. Germany’s Bostalsee-based round had been expected to be dropped, but was saved at the expense of Catalunya. Germany does, however, move from a summer date to mid-October. Rally GB is
One of the most mouth-watering prospects heading into this MotoGP season was Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo sharing the Honda garage and going head-to-head on equal machinery. But a constantly injured Lorenzo has struggled to adapt from the Ducati he took to three race wins in 2018 to the RC213V, and he is in the
Dani Sordo is expected to remain with Hyundai in the World Rally Championship for a seventh season in 2020, despite speculation about a move to Toyota. The 36-year-old took his first win since 2012 earlier this season in Sardinia and has been in contention for podiums on most events he has contested this year. His
Ricky Stenhouse Jr will leave Roush Fenway Racing after seven full seasons with the team and be replaced by Chris Buescher for the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series campaign. Stenhouse, who had signed a two-year contract extension earlier this year, has driven the #17 for RFR full-time since the 2013 season following back-to-back Xfinity Series titles
FIA president Jean Todt is disappointed the World Rally Championship has not embraced hybrid technology sooner and admits the governing body should have pushed harder for the move. Key aspects of the hybrid future of the World Rally Championship are being discussed by the FIA’s technical working group this week with decisions set to be
KTM motorsport boss Pit Beirer says that Johann Zarco has the company’s blessing to test or race for a rival MotoGP manufacturer while he remains under contract. Following Zarco’s decision to request an exit from his two-year deal one year early, KTM decided to drop the two-time Moto2 champion with immediate effect. Zarco was then
MotoGP race winner Sete Gibernau will not remain part of the MotoE grid after the 2019 season, the rider has told Autosport. The 46-year-old came out of retirement to contest the electric series’ inaugural season with Pons, and currently sits 10th in the standings after four of six rounds. Gibernau said he has been “completely
Felix Rosenqvist admits he channelled his “anger” over his treatment at the hands of the IndyCar Series’ stewards into a strong finish in last weekend’s Laguna Seca season finale. The Chip Ganassi Racing driver capped off his rookie campaign by finishing fifth from 14th on the grid on Sunday, after having his two fastest laps
Alexander Rossi believes he “minimised” his mistakes in the IndyCar title fight in 2019 but “probably the right guy won” in Penske’s Josef Newgarden. Andretti Autosports Rossi trailed points’ leader Newgarden by 41-points entering last weekend’s Laguna Seca double-points finale. But Rossi could only finish sixth in Sunday’s race – two spots ahead of Newgarden
Aleix Espargaro warns his strong MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix weekend is not the “reality” of Aprilia’s true pace and admits the manufacturer is still “suffering”. Espargaro put his RS-GP fifth on the grid having held a front-row spot briefly in qualifying and was only narrowly pipped to sixth by LCR’s Cal Crutchlow late on in
NASCAR Cup Series points leader Martin Truex Jr said his spin on the way to a second victory in a row at Richmond “added some drama” to the race. Joe Gibbs Racing driver Truex was tagged by Ricky Stenhouse, but managed to avoid the wall and only fell from the lead to third, and a
Freshly-crowned double IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden says he was “dreading” the “chaotic” double points finale at Laguna Seca, which the Penske driver “hated”. Newgarden finished eighth with his closest title rival Alexander Rossi in sixth place, and it was enough to give the former a second title following his 2017 success. The Penske driver added
Maverick Vinales says the Yamaha’s deficit in power relative to the Ducatis meant he “had no chance” to defend a MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix podium late on. Vinales made his way up to second ahead of Pramac Ducati’s Jack Miller in the early stages of the 23-lap race, and at one stage was able to
Honda has announced Alvaro Bautista will join its factory World Superbike squad in 2020, ending speculation of a shock return to MotoGP with KTM for the current Ducati WSBK rider. Bautista, a MotoGP regular between 2010 and ’18, has so far won 15 races in his maiden WSBK campaign with Ducati and took 11 victories
Colton Herta fended off Will Power to win the IndyCar season finale at Laguna Seca as Josef Newgarden secured his second series title. Newgarden went into the first top-line US single-seater race at the California circuit since 2004 with a comfortable 41-point advantage in the championship table, and his eighth place finish was enough to
Valentino Rossi does not understand his “bad” pace in MotoGP’s Aragon Grand Prix, which left him 23.6 seconds from the win in eighth place. The Yamaha rider opted for the same hard rear, medium front tyre combination as works team-mate Maverick Vinales and the Petronas SRT M1 of Fabio Quartararo. While they finished fourth and
Marc Marquez put one hand on a sixth MotoGP world championship by securing a dominant victory at the Aragon Grand Prix from pole position. The Honda rider, making his 200th grand prix start, nailed his launch off the line and was already a second clear of the field by the end of the first lap,
B-Max pair Frederic Makowiecki and Kohei Hirate delivered Nissan’s first 2019 SUPER GT win in a rain-hit race at Sugo as early leaders Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto finished eighth. As the race got under way after three laps behind the safety car, front-row starter Button immediately sprinted past polesitter Koudai Tsukakoshi into Turn 1,
Felix Rosenqvist has slammed IndyCar race officials as “maybe having something against me” after his two fastest qualifying times were deleted at the Laguna Seca finale. Rosenqvist ran wide and spun on the exit of Turn 6, the left-hander leading onto the climb towards the Corkscrew, early in the second part of Laguna qualifying on
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Erik Jones has become the first person to be disqualified from a NASCAR Cup race under the series’ new crackdown on rules infringements. Jones – who finished 36th last weekend in the playoff opener at Las Vegas – was originally credited with a fourth-place finish on Saturday night at Richmond, part
Martin Truex Jr survived a spin to win the 2019 NASCAR Cup season’s second race at Richmond, taking his second victory in a row and his sixth this year. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver, who also won the track’s April Cup round, was tagged by Ricky Stenhouse Jr in the final stage and sent spinning,
Colton Herta claimed the third pole of his rookie IndyCar campaign by beating championship contenders Scott Dixon and Alexander Rossi in qualifying at the 2019 season finale at Laguna Seca. Herta, the son of two-time Laguna Seca winner Bryan Herta, who won two Champ Car races at the track in 1998 and ’99, set a
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